Do you think the japanese developers were thinking of this? Does that warrant censorship because some fragile little NPCs are getting riled up by the perpetually offended?
Fuck that. This should be ignored by people like Sony, and those offended should be scoffed at for being so fucking stupid.
This isn't a racism thing. It's not even a thing at all, until those perpetually offended spoke up. Ideally, no attention would be given to this by anyone. But Sony is intervening, so shit like this gets a focus and dumbasses come along and say "well, it does look bad", but never really elaborates beyond a feeling of impropriety rather than anything malicious.
Stop expecting a sanitised world. This whole fucking SocJus shitshow arises from these expectations of sanitised environments. The internet was a bastion of community for all types until it gain mass accessibility in the late 2000s and suddenly everything needed to be scrubbed for normie sensibilities. And this isn't even leaning on conspiratorial aspects. This is hard reality, largely influenced by advertising, something that has lead this sanitisation effort FOR DECADES, if not well over a century at this point. Don't believe me? Here's Rod Fucking Serling talking about it in no unclear terms of EXACTLY that sterilisation of media in 1959.
This shit is a cancer. And until people at large, normies included, stop giving any credence to these sanitisation rituals of the media, nothing will change.
Do you think the japanese developers were thinking of this?
No, not necessarily. However, if you accidentally spell out something that would be offensive in another culture, it's probably best to remove it. It's not like the graffiti is essential to the game.
"Hard R" is a common term of expression that is rooted in a racist term. Accidental or not, it's better to remove it.
It's not like the graffiti is essential to the game.
Irrelevant. Censorship is censorship. Especially when it's compliancy with the perpetually offended.
That's some dramatic whining lol
Yeah, calling ever growing censorship is the "dramatic whining". Let me guess, the Spanish language needs to change their word for black too, right? Or is that Different™ because it's not a white western culture?
This by itself is, as you're basing your entire point on, innocuous. Congrats, because I'm gonna say that you're right on that part. The issue is that it never stops with the innocuous. It never stops being just that one thing.
The more you kowtow to the perpetually offended, the more they will demand and the more momentum they gain. The only way to stop this is to actually fucking stop kowtowing.
And also, "hard r" is not a racist term. Nigger is a racist term. But "hard R" is nothing more than a description of the term, and an effort (and a poor one at that) to pretend there's a difference between nigger and nigga.
Just to make it clear here as well, you're unironically defending efforts at censorship to appease delicate sensibilities. That's what this is boiling down to. Is this really the hill you want to die on? Because I'm more than happy to die on the hill of Freedom of Speech.
Let me guess, the Spanish language needs to change their word for black too, right?
Nope, it's different because it's well understood the language that brought along this term which is pronounced differently and associated towards a color, and the history of the word negro as a terms towards black people.
It never stops being just that one thing.
Well, if people stop making other things, then it will eventually stop at that last thing.
But "hard R" is nothing more than a description of the term
Precisely. Hence why I said "rooted." Now you get it.
Because I'm more than happy to die on the hill of Freedom of Speech.
A game changing graffiti in a game has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is freedom from government persecution
I mean...i'm not saying it's intentional, but it is a pretty clear reading and probably should have been spotted in the initial test plays.
Do you think the japanese developers were thinking of this? Does that warrant censorship because some fragile little NPCs are getting riled up by the perpetually offended?
Fuck that. This should be ignored by people like Sony, and those offended should be scoffed at for being so fucking stupid.
This isn't a racism thing. It's not even a thing at all, until those perpetually offended spoke up. Ideally, no attention would be given to this by anyone. But Sony is intervening, so shit like this gets a focus and dumbasses come along and say "well, it does look bad", but never really elaborates beyond a feeling of impropriety rather than anything malicious.
Stop expecting a sanitised world. This whole fucking SocJus shitshow arises from these expectations of sanitised environments. The internet was a bastion of community for all types until it gain mass accessibility in the late 2000s and suddenly everything needed to be scrubbed for normie sensibilities. And this isn't even leaning on conspiratorial aspects. This is hard reality, largely influenced by advertising, something that has lead this sanitisation effort FOR DECADES, if not well over a century at this point. Don't believe me? Here's Rod Fucking Serling talking about it in no unclear terms of EXACTLY that sterilisation of media in 1959.
This shit is a cancer. And until people at large, normies included, stop giving any credence to these sanitisation rituals of the media, nothing will change.
No, not necessarily. However, if you accidentally spell out something that would be offensive in another culture, it's probably best to remove it. It's not like the graffiti is essential to the game.
"Hard R" is a common term of expression that is rooted in a racist term. Accidental or not, it's better to remove it.
That's some dramatic whining lol
Irrelevant. Censorship is censorship. Especially when it's compliancy with the perpetually offended.
Yeah, calling ever growing censorship is the "dramatic whining". Let me guess, the Spanish language needs to change their word for black too, right? Or is that Different™ because it's not a white western culture?
This by itself is, as you're basing your entire point on, innocuous. Congrats, because I'm gonna say that you're right on that part. The issue is that it never stops with the innocuous. It never stops being just that one thing.
The more you kowtow to the perpetually offended, the more they will demand and the more momentum they gain. The only way to stop this is to actually fucking stop kowtowing.
And also, "hard r" is not a racist term. Nigger is a racist term. But "hard R" is nothing more than a description of the term, and an effort (and a poor one at that) to pretend there's a difference between nigger and nigga.
Just to make it clear here as well, you're unironically defending efforts at censorship to appease delicate sensibilities. That's what this is boiling down to. Is this really the hill you want to die on? Because I'm more than happy to die on the hill of Freedom of Speech.
Nope, it's different because it's well understood the language that brought along this term which is pronounced differently and associated towards a color, and the history of the word negro as a terms towards black people.
Well, if people stop making other things, then it will eventually stop at that last thing.
Precisely. Hence why I said "rooted." Now you get it.
A game changing graffiti in a game has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is freedom from government persecution